VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-8159

medium
Published 2015-03-16 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

Description

The InfiniBand (IB) implementation in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-504.12.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly restrict use of User Verbs for registration of memory regions, which allows local users to access arbitrary physical memory locations, and consequently cause a denial of service (system crash) or gain privileges, by leveraging permissions on a uverbs device under /dev/infiniband/.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8159

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed3.16.7-ckt9-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.16.7-ckt9-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.16.7-ckt9-1
debian debiansidfixed3.16.7-ckt9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.16.7-ckt9-1
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
linux linux-kernelaffected3.2.69
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10affected

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.